FILM APPRECIATION

   

               FILM APPRECIATION

THE  FIRST THING THAT CAME TO MY MIND BEFORE OUR MODULE OF FILM APPRECIATION STARTED WAS THAT WE WILL WATCH FILMS AND PRETTY MUCH IT. BUT AS THE COURSE STARTED WE DID WATCH DIFFRENT SORTS OF FILMS WATCHING THEM MADE ME REALIZE AND UNDERSTAND HOW ACTUALLY A FILM IS MADE.

THE STORY NARRATION, THE SOUND, THE LITTLE ACTIONS WHICH WE GENERALLY OVERLOOK MAKES A FILM. WE WERE MADE TO WATCH MANY MOVIES:

: CHARULATA BY SATYAJIT RAY

: ROSHOMON BY AKIRA KUROSAMA 

: TRIPLETS OF BELLEVILLE BY SYLVIAN CHOMET

: SINGING IN THE RAIN BY GENE KELLY AND STANLEY DONEN

: OCCURRENCES AT OWL CREEK BRIDGE

: GHARAUNDA BY BHIMSAIN KHURANA.

ONE OF OUR ASSIGNMENT WAS TO ANALYSE CHARULATA BY SATYAJIT RAY AND GIVE A WRITE UP ABOUT WHAT WE LIKED AND ABSORBED FROM THE MOVIE.

   

 

BASED ON A STORY BY RABINDRANATH TAGORE, NASTANIRH. A STORY OF A NEST BROKEN BY HUMAN DESIRES. CHARULATA PLAYED BY BEAUTIFUL MADHABI MUKHARJee is a bored and talented wife of a pride and a BOLD FREE thinker BHUPATI WHO is a newspaper editor and a proprietor. amal cousin of bhupati comes for a visit, spends more time  with  charulata by being encouraged by bhupati who loves charulata but is so much buried in his work to spend time with her. amal spending a lot of time with her they have a subtle feeeling AND AS time passed by they discussed about writing.

there are some nice scenes especially the depiction of charulat’s life in the beginning of the film where she is simply looking out of the window, studying the passerby with the engaged curiosity of a true artist.

there is one more scene in the film where bhupati goes in his room to take a book and when she sees him coming she follows him and goes inside the room, being buried in his work bhupati don’t even realize that she is there satanding passes her and goes back down to his work. and while he is going charulata sees him with A BINOCULAR going down, showing the distance between both of them. we are clear about the DISTANCE AS we see her watching bhupati going through her binoculars.

suttle expressions of charulata.

THE PLAY with light and shadow especially in the last scene. shift of focus when she opens the door.

the narative of the film is so seemless plus the sound is used beautifully there is a sort of space created with sound and the visuals are so evocative we get overwhelm by watching the film.